So that got through? I wasn´t sure I was clear enough...


You can say that again!

Great! Now I have to re-visit the Bioshocks! Glad you had fun 'Rocu, but please try to be a little more enthusiastic about it next time!

!

I know I can be a tad subtle sometimes...

Well, with Bioshock 2 said and done I´ve opened up yet another session of Star Wars: Rebellion. This time I´m the Alliance. I usually play as them since I don´t want to be evil, but seeing as you do the exact same thing anyway I played as the Empire last time. If nothing else I´m able to use the Star Destroyers and to see different cinematic ending.

I didn't realize Tullius had Star Destroyers?

Welcome to the side of Order! Last night I fired up Tie Fighter, and played a few of the early missions in the Dimok-Ripoblus campaign. Even after all these years, it is still a great game. Between the two of us, I am sure we can crush that pitiful band of Rebels.

I´m with the Rebels this time, remember? And I am closing in on Coruscant... Already I might add...


Have you ever played Empire at War, Rosa? It´s apparently the successor to Rebellion and I´m told it´s pretty good.

You rebel scum!

I never liked real time strategy games, so I didn't bother with Rebellion or Emp at War. If they were nice turn-based strategy games like X-Com or Wasteland 2, I would have been all over them.

ESO.

IM excited for the Tamriel unlimited thing

Sorry. I just didn´t get hooked by the Empire´s commercial...


Dude, you´re playing that!? What do you think of it?

So, did you enjoy this game? Don't hold anything back, you can tell us. Was it okay? Did you like it?

@Rocu

I personally don't think it's that bad. It has a lot of good lore and an ES feel in general.

I'm usually not into MMO's but ESO isn't horrible

Bouncing between Xcom Enemy Within and Dragon Age 3.

Xcom totally surprised me. It is an excellent turn based strategy game that I ended up loving.

I might be able to write something down eventually. If I can be bothered...


How´s it like to play with other people?


Noo! I didn´t mean like that!!!

@kiln - You and Thorny both, then

Enemy Within really is a great game. It makes me wonder why there aren't more turn based strategy games available for consoles.

Have you built a Mec yet? They're great fun


And I've started up a new game of Dragon Age: Origins. This time I'm gonna try playing as an honourable S&S warrior, from the human noble origin. (Aiming for the ending option only they can get)

I'm playing The Last Of Us

An excellent game, worth playing. Too bad it's ps4 exclusive

You have a PS4 then? You like it?

I meant play station exclusive, but yeah I have a ps4 now

I got it for free! Yay!

I dunno. I think I might sell it becaus well...I prefer xbox

I´d choose the PS4 over One, but that´s just me.

I mean I like my 360

Sadly, they'll stop coming out with games for it eventually

The Xbox one graphics are beautiful though

Yeah, I like the 360 too and if I´d ever get a console newer than the NES ( ) I´d get that

What do you think of the PS4 controller vs the 360?

The ps4 controller is actually kinda cool

It has sorta a speaker, so whenever I turn the flashlight on in the last of us, it sounds like a real flashlight being turned on

Since Alien: Isolation has a game ruining glitch ( ) I've dusted off Skyrim. I'm actually doing quests and not just hanging out with my kids!

What's the glitch??? I have that game!!

At one point in the game (pretty late into it) you need to get inside an airlock. However, there's an invisible wall that blocks you getting into said airlock. Meanwhile, it's noisy so the alien comes after you. I've even tried throwing things at the airlock, but they bounce back!

I've read that the updates should fix it, but I'm currently all updated and still nothing. When I feel more patient, I'll see what else I can do and I'll be sure to update you too

Got the Ultimate Edition of Dragon Age: Origins today, took a stab at the Darkspawn Chronicles DLC.

It's brutal.

Please do because im gonna return the game if that happens

I used the Mecs but their inability to enter cover kind of limits usefulness with my playstyle. I beat Xcom and it was a really refreshing game. The only other turn based strategy games on consoles are the Civ games which are okay but not amazing in my opinion.

Xcom was great because of the vast number of options available in modifying your soldiers and in tackling objectives. I also think that the EXALT missions forced you to mix up your strategy a bit, which I loved.

Darkwing Duck on the NES. Got up to the last boss (Steelbeak) but got pwnd. Thing is a couple bosses took quite a few lives from me before I got the hang on how to avoid damage so when Steelbeak was up I only had two lives left and there I got heat-seeking thingies after me. Got to continue but from the start of the level so I didn´t bother.

Have beaten it on Gameboy though

currently playing...Destiny. I play every day just for the daily bounties and stuff. The grind is real.

Also playing Skyrim, but that's nothing new

I am also playing Skyrim, specifically the Dragonborn DLC. I bought it when it came out but hadn't started it until a couple days ago.

Oh my god....

I watched my husband play it so I saw stuff, but it didn't compare to how I felt actually seeing it and playing it for myself. Just little things like shein and sujamma brought back such a joy. I loved hearing the Morrowind music and seeing all the familiar ingredients and netches and my people Dark Elves all over the place.

I felt home.

I just wish they'd update Morrowind's graphics and re-release it as an anniversary edition. (Similar to the Fable and Halo Anniversary edition.) I'd buy it again in a heartbeat for my console.

They'd need to address some of the bugs too, particularly for us consolites. Then again, there's no way they'd limit themselves to that. It'd get the full Skyrim treatment, which would ruin the game.

Seconded, though I'd really hope they overhauled the combat, as Morrowind combat system did not age well.

Until that happens, though, I'm happy to get that Skywind mod when it's released.

A Morrowind anniversary game would be great! Updated graphics, combat, conversation. Maybe some voiced characters.


I've finally got round to starting Grand Theft Auto 5. So far so good (about an hour in).

TBH, Morrowind looks really good using the graphics mods out there now. I use MGE, and I think it looks outstanding.

The real issues for me are the poor animations (which were stiff and wooden even compared to other games released at the same time), and the way the NPCs stand rooted to the same spot for the entire lives, and act like library terminals, each one spitting out 99% the same information as the next NPC. And yeah, the combat system was about as exciting as watching paint dry, especially after seeing my sword pass through the enemy's body for the third time in a row, without hitting...

I still love MW immensely despite it's flaws. It was imperfect but I loved how unique to world was in both it's art design and alien beasts.

Definitely; I absolutely adore Vvardenfel as a setting and the writing around the game was really strong. As with Subrosa, my beef was with the combat system and the annoying, immersion-breaking system of not hitting enemies my sword has just cleaved through due to an arbitrary random number generator.

In other news, I've managed to work in the Vault Hunters from Borderlands 2 as a cameo in the next session of my Pathfinder campaign. That'll be fun.

Agreed on all accounts


Like all games it has its flaws, but it´s still a great game that can look beautiful with the mods already available

I've just fired up Shadowrun Returns again after playing it for a bit during the summer, and it's good to get back into it again. This time I'm playing the Dragonfall expansion, as opposed to the vanilla main game.

It's based, as you might have guessed, off the Shadowrun tabletop RPG, which is a mashup of Cyberpunk and fantasy, a setting with elves, magic and dragons rubbing shoulders with hackers, corporate bigwigs and cybernetically enhanced Street Samurai. It's a tactical turn-based CRPG, in a vein reminiscent of Fallout Tactics, and in terms of raw gameplay is definitely a good game; AI is good, the weapons seem reasonably balanced and it's challenging without feeling frustrating or unfair, though it can drag a little and combat against endgame enemies can be a frustrating slog. Considering that the game is primarily focussed on being a platform for user-generated content, released with a construction set a la The Elder Scrolls, I feel a little more charitably inclined towards it even if it does somewhat feel like it was all made in aforesaid construction set.

The vanilla game is, all in all, pretty decent, though while the turn-based combat is satisfying it's structured around a fairly mediocre story, is overly linear and the endgame is more annoying than satisfying. Dragonfall, on the other hand, is a vast improvement over the vanilla game in almost every way. The characters in your team can be a recurring, well-developed cast instead of random goons you hire, the writing is much stronger and the encounters more interesting. The missions work on a 'hub and spoke' system that revolves around a district of futuristic Berlin called the Kruisbazaar, a large marketplace area populated by NPCs who provide services, information and sidequests. Dragonfall feels rather in the vein of Mass Effect 2, with its focus on your hub area and on gaining the loyalty of your squadmates, who are an engaging if somewhat archetypal bunch, with them being ex-military by-the-books soldier whose respect you must earn, a cybered-up killer with a mysterious dark past and an aging former punk-rock singer and anarchist who fills the role of Team Dad.

I haven't completed Dragonfall yet, but I'm enjoying it and if you like tactical turn-based stuff or are a big fan of cyberpunk, I'd definitely recommend giving Shadowrun returns a shot.

If they do, I hope it looks a lot better than the Fable anniversary edition. Somehow the people in Fable look worse (at least, up close).




Same~ I kept the very first Morrowind disc after it broke. It's hanging up by the tv

I used to play the original Shadowrun tabletop rpg, so I have had an eye on Shadowrun Returns for a while. I have just never broken down and bought it yet. It is definitely on my list to try out, along with the new X-Com game.

It's worth a play, I'd say. You might want to skip Dead Man's Switch (the vanilla campaign) and just go straight for Dragonfall, as Dragonfall upgrades Dead Man's Switch from a solid B+ to an A-.

Well, the siren call of Destiny has once more reached me...*Sighs-but-doesn't-entirely-convince-he's-truly-sad-about-it™...*...It's very much a grinding game, but that's half the fun, I think... ...Plus - spaceships, armour and overpowered guns...*Sighs happily this time*... ...

I'm currently playing World of Tanks. I've played off and on for about a year and still don't have the German Tiger tank

Ok, lets see. Last night I played some

Super Marios Bros
Dr. Mario
Darkwing Duck
Track & Field II
Probotector (Contra)
Little Nemo

And on the Game Boy I played some Super Mario Land 2 - 6 Golden Coins



My internet at home has been capped. So, yeah...

just finished my 85092835742898901423th (approx.) playthrough of Bioshock 1. I really should try to finish GTA5 but hey ho, Bioshock 2 here we go!

Monster Hunter 4U for the 3DS.

Damn compelling game.

Elite Dangerous...I hated it, initially...And then I spent four and a half hours on it yesterday afternoon totally addicted...*Shrug*...Awesome game...

I also had &^%$-ing Brother come over and set up his Amiga Emulator on our comp, so now I can play Frontier (Elite 2) as well... ...

I like it when people got their priorities straight!

Just downloaded the Far Cry 4: Valley of the Yeti DLC. Looks quite interesting thus far. There aren't loads of outposts to capture like in the main game - instead you just have one which you can upgrade to help you defend it against the enemies that attack each night. Kind of like a horde mode base defense thing.

Update: Yetis are crazy tough to beat.

Update update: Those yetis are snow joke. The whole DLC feels more difficult than the standard game, and there's only a tiny bit of a story to hold it together. Fortunately it wasn't too expensive and you get what you pay for.